NS Cliches: Rebooted

by **Broader Confederate States** » Sat May 21, 2022 2:41 pm

Red Lake Circle wrote:
The Moonlight Land wrote:Cliche 1 of 2: island nations.

Emerging cliche 2 of 2:
(Image)

I feel like alt-history Confederacies are doomed to failure, to an extent

bc in order to make a detailed, well-rounded one, you have to really research the Confederacy

and then the idea of playing it isn’t so fun anymore

Neither of us are alt-histoies, we're both alt-futures. I suppose yes, you're correct, I do have less passion now that I'm more aware of the whole thing behind the war and the history of it all, but the main point is that neither of us are alternate histories. Well, I guess mine is until I get done with that rewrite, but my PoD was in 2020.
And just so we're all on the same page, this was the image that the OP intended:

by **Gandoor** » Sat May 21, 2022 6:18 pm

When there's many elements of your nation's lore that you know make no sense because you've been working on your nation since you were like 14 but these elements are so ingrained into its canon that you're not going to go back and try and fix or remove these weird bits.

This isn't a cliché, I'm just talking about myself.

by **Broader Confederate States** » Sat May 21, 2022 6:22 pm

You may be talking about yourself, but it's nevertheless very applicable to many of us. I'm sure there are sentences on my account I wrote when I was 16 and haven't changed because newer, better sentences depend on the assumption that they're there, and trying to change the comment just makes it not quite feel the same, even if it's not really well written, it feels familiar and changing that would be jarring and alienating to myself. This also happens when going from one fanfic to another for me.

by **Reich of the New World Order** » Sat May 21, 2022 6:23 pm

I change my lore so much i dont even know whats cannon at this point.

by **Remulia** » Sat May 21, 2022 6:27 pm

Reich of the New World Order wrote:I change my lore so much i dont even know whats cannon at this point.

That happened to this nation, too.

by **Meadowfields** » Sat May 21, 2022 6:29 pm

I also first wrote my lore when I was a year younger, my writing wasn't as good back then and I decanonized tons of stuff so I had to delete every single factbook and start from scratch again.

by **Hispida** » Sat May 21, 2022 6:31 pm

Red Lake Circle wrote:
The Moonlight Land wrote:Cliche 1 of 2: island nations.

Emerging cliche 2 of 2:
(Image)

I feel like alt-history Confederacies are doomed to failure, to an extent

bc in order to make a detailed, well-rounded one, you have to really research the Confederacy

and then the idea of playing it isn’t so fun anymore

i think a really cool idea for an alt-history "confederacy" (i.e. southern american state) is a socialist nation born of a slave revolt that the US funded to overthrow the confederacy but after consolidating itself the US realized it did a mujahedeen and kinda went "ah fuck"

by **Gandoor** » Sat May 21, 2022 6:51 pm

Reich of the New World Order wrote:I change my lore so much i dont even know whats cannon at this point.

another cliché: it's canon, not cannon

(this is a personal peeve of mine sorry)

by **The Jamesian Republic** » Sat May 21, 2022 6:58 pm

Does anyone have an RP they make were a bunch of people make reservations but then maybe two or three people participate and they just stop posting? I had that happen to me once.

by **Great United States** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:00 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:Does anyone have an RP they make were a bunch of people make reservations but then maybe two or three people participate and they just stop posting? I had that happen to me once.

From now on I'll call these "psuedo-RPs"

by **Dayganistan** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:19 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:Does anyone have an RP they make were a bunch of people make reservations but then maybe two or three people participate and they just stop posting? I had that happen to me once.

That's pretty typical for most RPs on NS actually.

by **Great United States** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:22 pm

Also,I feel like i should revive the Tourist review on AN thread

by **Meadowfields** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:23 pm

Great United States wrote:Also,I feel like i should revive the Tourist review on AN thread

Me too, I wanted to do a response but didn't have the energy...

by **Great United States** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:24 pm

Meadowfields wrote:
Great United States wrote:Also,I feel like i should revive the Tourist review on AN thread

Me too, I wanted to do a response but didn't have the energy...

The last post was from 2016,I think posting there counts as gravedigging

by **Gandoor** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:27 pm

Great United States wrote:
Meadowfields wrote:Me too, I wanted to do a response but didn't have the energy...

The last post was from 2016,I think posting there counts as gravedigging

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by **Meadowfields** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:29 pm

Great United States wrote:
Meadowfields wrote:Me too, I wanted to do a response but didn't have the energy...

The last post was from 2016,I think posting there counts as gravedigging

Wtf? F7 gets pruned every 7 days, how tf do you gravedig F7?

by **Great United States** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:30 pm

Btw ,this is the thread I found when I searched up YN tourist https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=393715&p=30278482&hilit=YN+tourist#p30278482

by **Gandoor** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:31 pm

Yeah that's not an F7 thread lol, that was just someone from 2016 not knowing you don't put forum game threads in F&NI.

by **Great United States** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:33 pm

I didn't find any other thread about tourist review when I searched it up,I'm gonna search again

by **Ulajhan** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:38 pm

Here's something that might resonate with a few of us:

Feature Bloat.

I'm currently working on a factbook for my new nation's military and in a rare act of introspection I am beginning to realize that the project is growing larger than I expected and that the scale combined with my lacking time management is going to make finishing it impossible.

Especially since I am suffering from an urge to start a new factbook about all the shiny weapons and other equipment this nation uses because I am an absolute slut for making rocks go fast.

by **Gandoor** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:39 pm

Great United States wrote:I didn't find any other thread about tourist review when I searched it up,I'm gonna search again

You can just make a new thread in F7 for that, you know?

by **Great United States** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:40 pm

Gandoor wrote:
Great United States wrote:I didn't find any other thread about tourist review when I searched it up,I'm gonna search again

You can just make a new thread in F7 for that, you know?

I'm gonna do that rn

by **Ahkara** » Sat May 21, 2022 7:41 pm

Meadowfields wrote:I also first wrote my lore when I was a year younger, my writing wasn't as good back then and I decanonized tons of stuff so I had to delete every single factbook and start from scratch again.

I’ve done that multiple times because I keep changing what I want my nation to be. Then usually I switch back to the same idea right after

by **Karazicu** » Sat May 21, 2022 8:40 pm

just going to leave this guy here just because
https://www.youtube.com/c/TerribleWriti ... e/featured

also gonna dump this particular video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l1K6eT43DY

by **Pupax Portiis** » Sat May 21, 2022 10:39 pm

This is more of just a thing that happens to new players, but I've left the filter off on this account for regional recruiter messages, and in the last three hours I've gotten twenty three different recruiting telegrams. I'm waiting to see how many I get in 12 hours before turning them off (or just moving this account to my main region).

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